List of German colonel generals
Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden as Prussian colonel general (with the rank of Generalfeldmarschall (GFM)
The following is an incomplete list of German colonel generals.
German Empire
German Army
See also: ⇒ de: List of the German Empire's colonel generals
Generals later promoted to general field marshal (GFM) are not included.
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| Promoted | Name | Born | Died | Notes |
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| 1873 | Prince August of Württemberg | 1813 | 1885 | Commander-in-Chief in the so-called Marken and Governor of Berlin |
| 1888 | Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden | 1826 | 1907 | with the rank of a GFM, Inspector of the Army |
| 1889 | Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | 1818 | 1901 | à la suite of the Royal Saxon Army |
| 1890 | Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg | 1815 | 1898 | with the rank of GFM à la suite of the army, Minister President of Prussia |
| 1905 | Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen | 1851 | 1928 | with the rank of a GFM, Inspector of the Army |
| 1905 | Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden | 1857 | 1928 | with the rank of an Inspector of the Army |
| 1908 | Hans von Plessen | 1841 | 1929 | with the rank of a GFM, adjudant general of the Empire and commander of the HQ |
| 1909 | Prince Henry of Prussia | 1862 | 1929 | with the rank of a GFM, Großadmiral, Inspector-General of the Navy, à la suite of the Prussian Army |
| 1910 | Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia | 1856 | 1931 | à la suite of the Prussian Army |
| 1911 | Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein | 1831 | 1917 | à la suite of the Prussian Army |
| 1911 | Gustav von Kessel | 1846 | 1918 | adjudant general of the Empire, Commander-in-Chief in the so-called Marken and Governor of Berlin |
| 1911 | Carl von Horn | 1847 | 1923 | War Minister of Bavaria |
| 1912 | Otto Kreß von Kressenstein | 1850 | 1929 | War Minister of Bavaria |
| 1913 | Duke Philipp of Württemberg | 1838 | 1917 | à la suite Army of Württemberg |
| 1913 | Maximilian von Prittwitz | 1848 | 1917 | Prussian army commander |
| 1914 | Moriz von Lyncker | 1853 | 1932 | Chief of the Military cabinet |
| 1914 | Friedrich von Scholl | 1846 | 1928 | adjudant general of the Empire |
| 1914 | Helmuth von Moltke the Younger | 1848 | 1916 | Chief of the German General Staff |
| 1914 | Max Freiherr von Hausen | 1846 | 1922 | Minister-President of Saxony and German Army commander |
| 1914 | Alexander von Kluck | 1846 | 1934 | Prussian army commander |
| 1914 | Moritz von Bissing | 1844 | 1917 | Prussian General Governorate of Belgium |
| 1915 | Karl von Einem | 1853 | 1934 | Prussian army commander |
| 1915 | Otto von Marchtaler | 1854 | 1920 | württembergischer Kriegsminister |
| 1917 | Günther Graf von Kirchbach | 1850 | 1925 | Prussian Heeresgruppenführer |
| 1918 | Felix Graf von Bothmer | 1852 | 1937 | Bavarian army commander |
| 1918 | Karl Ludwig d'Elsa | 1849 | 1922 | Saxonian army commander |
| 1918 | Hans von Kirchbach | 1849 | 1928 | Saxonian army commander |
Weimar Republic
Reichswehr
- 1926 – Hans von Seeckt (1866–1936), Chef of the Oberste Heeresleitung
- 1930 – Wilhelm Heye (1869–1946), Chef of the Oberste Heeresleitung
- 1934 – Kurt Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord (1878–1943), Chef of the Oberste Heeresleitung
Third Reich
Heer
See also: ⇒ World War II German Army ranks and insignia
Complete list of colonel generals (Bold entries denote those who later were promoted to Generalfeldmarschall):
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| Promoted | Name | Born | Died | Notes |
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| 20 Apr 1936 | Werner von Fritsch | 1880 | 1939 | Commander-in-Chief of the Oberkommando des Heeres |
| 4 Feb 1938 | Walther von Brauchitsch | 1881 | 1948 | 19 July 1940 Generalfeldmarschall |
| 1 Mar 1938 | Gerd von Rundstedt | 1875 | 1953 | 19 July 1940 Generalfeldmarschall |
| 15 Mar 1938 | Fedor von Bock | 1880 | 1945 | 19 July 1940 Generalfeldmarschall |
| 1 Nov 1938 | Ludwig Beck | 1880 | 1944 | Chief of the German General Staff |
| 1 Nov 1938 | Wilhelm Keitel | 1882 | 1946 | 19 July 1940 Generalfeldmarschall |
| 1 Jan 1939 | Wilhelm Adam | 1877 | 1949 | Commander-in-Chief of the Heeresgruppe 2 in Kassel (1938) |
| 20 Apr 1939 | Wilhelm List | 1880 | 1971 | 19 July 1940 Generalfeldmarschall |
| 1 Oct 1939 | Johannes Blaskowitz | 1883 | 1948 | 8th Army (Wehrmacht) - 9th Army (Wehrmacht) - 1st Army (Wehrmacht) - Army Group G - Army Group H - 25th Army (Wehrmacht) |
| 1 Oct 1939 | Günther von Kluge | 1882 | 1944 | 19 July 1940 Generalfeldmarschall |
| 1 Oct 1939 | Walter von Reichenau | 1884 | 1942 | 19 July 1940 Generalfeldmarschall |
| 1 Nov 1939 | Wilhelm von Leeb | 1876 | 1956 | 19 July 1940 Generalfeldmarschall |
| 1 Nov 1939 | Erwin von Witzleben | 1881 | 1944 | 19 July 1940 Generalfeldmarschall |
| 19 July 1940 | Ernst Busch | 1885 | 1945 | 1 Feb 1943 Generalfeldmarschall |
| 19 July 1940 | Friedrich Dollmann | 1882 | 1944 | 7th Army (Wehrmacht) |
| 19 July 1940 | Nikolaus von Falkenhorst | 1885 | 1968 | Army HC Norwegen |
| 19 July 1940 | Friedrich Fromm | 1888 | 1945 | Replacement Army |
| 19 July 1940 | Heinz Guderian | 1884 | 1954 | Army Group Guderian - 2nd Panzer Army -Chief of the German General Staff |
| 19 July 1940 | Curt Haase | 1881 | 1943 | 15th Army (Wehrmacht) |
| 19 July 1940 | Franz Halder | 1884 | 1972 | Chief of the German General Staff |
| 19 July 1940 | Hermann Hoth | 1885 | 1971 | 17th Army (Wehrmacht) - 4th Panzer Army - Army Group Hoth |
| 19 July 1940 | Erich Hoepner | 1886 | 1944 | 4th Panzer Army |
| 19 July 1940 | Ewald von Kleist | 1881 | 1954 | 1 Feb 1943 Generalfeldmarschall |
| 19 July 1940 | Georg von Küchler | 1881 | 1968 | 30 June 1942 Generalfeldmarschall |
| 19 July 1940 | Eugen von Schobert | 1883 | 1941 | 11th Army (Wehrmacht) |
| 19 July 1940 | Adolf Strauß | 1879 | 1973 | 9th Army (Wehrmacht) |
| 19 July 1940 | Maximilian von Weichs | 1881 | 1954 | 1 Feb 1943 Generalfeldmarschall |
| 1 Jan 1942 | Georg-Hans Reinhardt | 1887 | 1963 | 3rd Panzer Army - Army Group Center |
| 1 Jan 1942 | Rudolf Schmidt | 1886 | 1957 | 2nd Panzer Army |
| 30 Jan 1942 | Erwin Rommel | 1891 | 1944 | 22 June 1942 Generalfeldmarschall |
| 28 Feb 1942 | Walter Model | 1891 | 1945 | 1 Mar 1944 Generalfeldmarschall |
| 7 Mar 1942 | Erich von Manstein | 1887 | 1973 | 1 July 1942 Generalfeldmarschall |
| 1 Apr 1942 | Richard Ruoff | 1883 | 1967 | 4th Panzer Army - 17th Army (Wehrmacht) - Army Group Ruoff - 17th Army (Wehrmacht) |
| 1 June 1942 | Eduard Dietl | 1890 | 1944 | Army Lapland - 20th Mountain Army |
| 5 July 1942 | Georg Lindemann | 1884 | 1963 | 18th Army (Wehrmacht) - Army Group North - Army Lindemann |
| 20 Nov 1942 | Friedrich Paulus | 1890 | 1957 | 31 Jan 1943 Generalfeldmarschall |
| 4 Dec 1942 | Hans-Jürgen von Arnim | 1889 | 1962 | 5th Panzer Army - Army Group Africa |
| 1 Jan 1943 | Gotthard Heinrici | 1886 | 1971 | 4th Army (Wehrmacht) - 1st Panzer Army - Army Group Vistula |
| 1 Jan 1943 | Hans von Salmuth | 1888 | 1962 | 2nd Army (Wehrmacht) - 15th Army (Wehrmacht) |
| 30 Jan 1943 | Walter Heitz | 1878 | 1944 | 15th Army (Wehrmacht) |
| 31 Jan 1943 | Karl Strecker | 1884 | 1973 | |
| 6 July 1943 | Eberhard von Mackensen | 1889 | 1969 | 1st Panzer Army - 14th Army (Wehrmacht) |
| 1 Sep 1943 | Heinrich Gottfried von Vietinghoff-Scheel | 1887 | 1952 | 9th Army (Wehrmacht) - 15th Army (Wehrmacht) - 10th Army (Wehrmacht) - Army Group Kurland - Army Group C |
| 1 Sep 1943 | Karl-Adolf Hollidt | 1891 | 1985 | 6th Army (Wehrmacht) |
| 30 Jan 1944 | Alfred Jodl | 1890 | 1946 | Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, or OKW) |
| 30 Jan 1944 | Erwin Jaenecke | 1890 | 1960 | 17th Army (Wehrmacht) |
| 30 Jan 1944 | Walter Weiß | 1890 | 1967 | 2nd Army (Wehrmacht) - Army Group North - Army Group East Prussia |
| 30 Jan 1944 | Kurt Zeitzler | 1895 | 1963 | Chief of the German General Staff |
| 20 Apr 1944 | Josef Harpe | 1887 | 1968 | 9th Army (Wehrmacht) - 4th Panzer Army - Army Group North Ukraine - Army Group A - 5th Panzer Army |
| 1 Apr 1944 | Lothar Rendulic | 1887 | 1971 | 2nd Panzer Army - 20th Mountain Army |
| 1 Apr 1944 | Hans-Valentin Hube | 1890 | 1944 | 1st Panzer Army |
| 20 May 1944 | Ferdinand Schörner | 1892 | 1973 | 5 Apr 1945 Generalfeldmarschall |
| 23 July 1944 | Johannes Frießner | 1892 | 1971 | Army Group Friessner - Army Group North - Army Group South Ukraine - Army Group South |
| 15 Aug 1944 | Erhard Raus | 1888 | 1956 | 4th Panzer Army - 1st Panzer Army - 3rd Panzer Army |
| 7 May 1945 | Carl Hilpert | 1888 | 1947 | 16th Army (Wehrmacht) - Army Group Kurland |
Luftwaffe
⇒ See also: Military Ranks of the Luftwaffe (1935–1945)
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| Promoted | Name | Born | Died | Notes |
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| 1943 | Otto Deßloch | 1889 | 1977 | Commanding general Luftflotte 4 |
| 1940 | Ulrich Grauert | 1889 | 1941 | |
| 1942 | Hans Jeschonnek | 1899 | 1943 | |
| 1940 | Alfred Keller | 1882 | 1974 | |
| 1944 | Günther Korten | 1898 | 1944 | posthumous promotion |
| 1941 | Alexander Löhr | 1885 | 1947 | |
| 1943 | Bruno Loerzer | 1891 | 1960 | |
| 1942 | Günther Rüdel | 1883 | 1950 | |
| 1944 | Kurt Student | 1890 | 1978 | |
| 1940 | Hans-Jürgen Stumpff | 1889 | 1968 | |
| 1940 | Ernst Udet | 1896 | 1941 | |
| 1940 | Hubert Weise | 1884 | 1950 |
SS
SS Oberst-Gruppenführer and Generaloberst of the Waffen-SS:
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- 1942 - Paul Hausser (1880–1972)
- 1944 - Sepp Dietrich (1892–1966)
SS Oberst-Gruppenführer and Generaloberst of the Police:
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- 1942 - Kurt Daluege (1897-1946)
German Democratic Republic (GDR)
National People's Army
⇒ See also: Rank insignias
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| Promoted | Name | Born | Died | Notes |
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| 1988 | Klaus-Dieter Baumgarten | 1931 | 2008 | Deputy Defence minister and Commanding General of the GDR's Border Troops |
| 1979 | Erich Peter | 1919 | 1987 | |
| 1989 | Fritz Peter | 1927 | Chief of the GDR's Civil defense | |
| 1979 | Wolfgang Reinhold | 1923 | 2012 | Deputy Defence minister and Commanding General of the Kommando LSK/LV |
Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS)
- Bruno Beater (1914–1982)
- Rudi Mittig (1925–1994)
- Markus Wolf (1923–2006)
German Volkspolizei (DVP)
- Karl Maron (1903–1975)
- Karl-Heinz Wagner
See also
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